Job Description
Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary VP of Architecture, Open Finance VP, Architecture – Open Finance Overview Open Finance is redefining how financial data is accessed, shared, and used. At Mastercard, we are building a global platform that gives consumers and businesses secure, intelligent control over their financial data—powering account aggregation, payments, and real-time decisioning. This is a multi-region, market-facing platform operating across the US, Europe, and APAC with strict data residency requirements, high availability expectations, and strong trust guarantees. The architecture spans API gateways, identity and consent, distributed data systems, analytics platforms, and regulated integrations with financial institutions. The challenges are real: - Designing systems that scale globally but behave locally - Evolving platforms while introducing breaking changes safely - Keeping architecture clean as complexity grows across regions and products - Enforcing standards without slowing delivery Architecture is central to how we solve these problems. We are looking for a VP of Architecture to lead the technical direction of Open Finance platforms. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has built complex systems, made difficult trade-offs, and delivered real outcomes. Role In this role, you will: - Own the architecture of Open Finance platforms end-to-end, ensuring systems are scalable, resilient, secure, and adaptable across markets - Define and drive the long-term architectural vision and translate it into clear, executable direction - Lead and develop a distributed team of senior architects across regions - Make and defend high-stakes trade-offs across Engineering, Product, and business priorities - Lead platform evolution—modernising systems, reducing complexity, and preparing for future scale - Drive alignment across teams through clear standards, strong communication, and decisive leadership - Proactively manage stakeholders and expectations across engineering, product, and leadership - Communicate effectively at all levels, from deep technical design to executive direction - Ensure architecture decisions result in systems that are delivered, deployed, and operate successfully
